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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2005, 8:11 PM CDT for Marathon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2005, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2005, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Marathon County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGRB 080111 TORGRB WIC073-080215- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0018.050608T0111Z-050608T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 811 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARATHON COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAUSAU * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 806 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR COLBY...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RIB MOUNTAIN AND MOSINEE BY 840 PM... WESTON BY 845 PM... BEVENT BY 855 PM... A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO... SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. LAT...LON 4506 9033 4488 9039 4470 8925 4507 8925 $$ KURIMSKI
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 080127 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 825 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 WIC073-080215- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-050608T0215Z/ MARATHON WI- 825 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR MARATHON COUNTY... AT 824 PM...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AND ROTATING WALL CLOUD NEAR ATHENS IN WESTERN MARATHON COUNTY. THE LINE OF STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MOSINEE...EVERGREEN AND ROTHSCHILD BY 840 PM... BEVENT BY 855 PM... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4506 9033 4488 9039 4470 8925 4507 8925 $$ HELMAN
000 WWUS53 KGRB 080139 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 837 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 WIC073-080215- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-050608T0215Z/ MARATHON WI- 837 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR MARATHON COUNTY... AT 832 PM...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ATHENS...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUSAU...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. AT 831 PM...TREE LIMBS WERE OBSERVED TO BE TOSSED IN THE AIR. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RINGLE BY 845 PM... HATLEY AND PIKE LAKE BY 850 PM... NORRIE BY 855 PM... A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO... SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4506 9033 4488 9039 4470 8925 4507 8925 $$ HELMAN
000 WWUS53 KGRB 080208 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 904 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 WIC073-080215- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-050608T0215Z/ MARATHON WI- 904 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR MARATHON COUNTY... AT 903 PM...THE MARATHON COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED WIDESPREAD TREES DOWN OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. THERE WAS A POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN EARLIER NEAR ATHENS...HOWEVER THERE HAVE BEEN NO OTHER REPORTS OF TORNADOES SINCE THEN. THE LINE OF STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 50 MPH. EXPECT STORNG WINDS WITH POSSIBLY A TORNADO NEAR... RINGLE BY 910 PM... HATLEY BY 915 PM... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS LINE OF STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 60 MPH WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4506 9033 4488 9039 4470 8925 4507 8925 $$ HELMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Forest | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Oneida | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 63 min |
| Jun 7, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Wood | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 58 min |
| Jun 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Oconto | 52 min |
| Jun 7, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Langlade, Oconto | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 9:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 7, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 9:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Wood | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 88 min | |
| Jun 7, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown | 27 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.